SAFE, RELIABLE HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER TRAIN BOND ACT.

• Provides long-distance commuters with a safe, convenient, affordable, and reliable alternative to driving and high gas prices.

• Reduces traffic congestion on the state’s highways and at the state’s airports.

• Reduces California’s dependence on foreign oil.

• Reduces air pollution and global warming greenhouse gases.

• Provides for California’s growing population.

• Provides for a bond issue of $9.95 billion to establish high-speed train service linking Southern California counties, the Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

This new rail system will give us a more efficient way to travel vetween cities that will be better for the environment.

This will reduce California’s need for foreign oil and help our overcrowded freeways and airports

Our budget crisis is already forcing cuts to schools, healthcare and more. These funds could be spent on improving our existing roads and transit systems.

There is no guarantee this high-speed rail system will ever be finished

STANDARDS FOR CONFINING FARM ANIMALS

• Requires that calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens and pregnant pigs be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, fully extend their limbs and turn around freely.

• Exceptions made for transportation, rodeos, fairs, 4-H programs, lawful slaughter, research and veterinary purposes.

• Provides misdemeanor penalties, including a fine not to exceed $1,000 and/or imprisonment in jail for up to 180 days.

Prop 2 will stop the cruel and inhumane treatment of farm animals that are now kept in cramped or overcrowded cages

This lowers the risk of spreading animal diseases and protects the environment from air pollution and waste from factory farms.

Prop 2 is extreme and not needed. There are already laws in place to stop cruel treatment of animals

This will increase grocery prices of California eggs and other farm products, put farmers out of business and cost us much-needed jobs

CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOND ACT. GRANT PROGRAM.

• Authorizes $980,000,000 in bonds to fund the construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing and equipping of children’s hospitals.

• Designates that 80 percent of bond proceeds go to hospitals that focus on children with illnesses such as leukemia, cancer, heart defects, diabetes, sickle cell anemia and cystic fibrosis.

• Requires that qualifying children’s hospitals provide comprehensive services to a high volume of children eligible for governmental.

• Designates that 20 percent of bond proceeds go to University of California general acute care hospitals.

Children’s hospitals save hundreds of lives each day but do not have enough room to treat all of the children who are sent to them

Hospitals would be able to buy up-to-date equipment to treat babies born early or with defective organs

Hundreds of millions of dollars for children’s hospitals are still elft from bonds passed in 2004 that have not been spent

Although these funds would go to hospitals that serve children, Prop 3 does not guarantee that the money will be spent on actual services for children.

WAITING PERIOD AND PARENTAL NOTIFICATION BEFORE TERMINATION OF MINOR’S PREGNANCY.

• Changes California Constitution to prohibit abortion for unemancipated minor until 48 hours after physician notifies minor’s parent or legal guardian.

• Provides notification exceptions for medical emergency or parental waiver.

• Permits courts to waive notice based on clear and convincing evidence of minor’s maturity or best interests.

• Mandates reporting requirements, including reports from physicians regarding abortions on minors.

A pregnant minor needs the support of a parent or guardian before and after she decides what to do about her pregnancy

Minors hiding an abortion from their parents may delay getting help for medical problems after abortion

Minors who are afraid to tell their parents, or are too scared to go to a juvenile court judge, may try to get unsafe abortions

Laws cannot force good communication in families, and Prop 4 does not help minors in families with poor communication

NONVIOLENT DRUG OFFENSES. SENTENCING, PAROLE AND REHABILITATION

• Allocates $460,000,000 annually to improve and expand treatment programs for persons convicted of drug and other offenses.

• Limits court authority to incarcerate offenders who commit certain drug crimes, break drug treatment rules or violate parole.

• Substantially shortens parole for certain drug offenses; increases parole for serious and violent felonies.

Prop 5 will get nonviolent offenders and drug addicts into programs that will help them stay out of our overcrowded jails and prisons

California inmates and parolees are not getting enough rehabilitation services to help them re-enter society successfully

Prop 5 will let people convicted of domestic violence, identity theft and other crimes get out of going to jail by going into drug treatment programs instead

This shortens the parole time for methamphetamine dealers and other drug felons

POLICE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT FUNDING. CRIMINAL PENALTIES AND LAWS

• Requires minimum of $965,000,000 each year to be allocated from state General Fund for police, sheriffs, district attorneys, adult probation, jails and juvenile probation facilities.

• Makes approximately 30 revisions to California criminal law, many of which cover gang-related offenses.

• Increases penalties for violating a gang-related injunction and for felons carrying guns under certain conditions.

Prop 6 will bring more police and increased safety to our streets, along with more juvenile crime prevention

Gang members who commit violent felony crimes will spend more time in prison, and we will have better ways to track them when they are released

Prop 6 will waste billions on unproven programs, taking money away from other important programs like schools and fire protection

Several anti-gang programs were started in local communities around the state in 2007, and we need to give them more time to work

RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION

• Requires utilities, including government-owned utilities, to generate 20% of their power from renewable energy by 2010, a standard currently applicable only to private electrical corporations.

• Transfers some jurisdiction of regulatory matters from Public Utilities Commission to Energy Commission.

• Fast-tracks approval for new renewable energy plants.

• Requires utilities to sign longer contracts (20 year minimum) to procure renewable energy.

We can do better than dirty coal and nuclear power. Using more renewable resources will help the environment

Prop 7 will make California a leader in clean power and create hundreds of thousands of new jobs

Prop 7 will shut small renewable energy electric utility companies out of California’s market and disrupt the renewable energy work in progress

It will increase our electricity bills and taxpayer costs without achieving its stated goals

ELIMINATES RIGHT OF SAME–SEX COUPLES TO MARRY

• Changes the California Constitution to eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry in California.

• Provides that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.

Prop 8 restore the definition of marriage approved by the voters in 2000 and puts it in the State Constitution

California still has a “domestic partners” law that gives same-sex couples the same rights and benefits as married spouses

California’s Constitution guarantees the same rights for everyone, and marriage is a right

Domestic partnerships are not the same as marriage. It’s unfair that some people can enjoy the dignity of marriage and others cannot

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM. VICTIMS’ RIGHTS. PAROLE.

• Requires notification to victim and opportunity for input during phases of criminal justice process, including bail, pleas, sentencing and parole.

• Establishes victim safety as consideration in determining bail or release on parole.

• Increases the number of people permitted to attend and testify on behalf of victims at parole hearings.

• Requires that victims receive written notification of their constitutional rights.

• Establishes timelines and procedures concerning parole revocation hearings.

With Prop 9 crime victims would get the same rights to due process as the rights criminals have

Prop 9 will keep politicians from letting dangerous prisoners out early in order to lower overcrowding problems in prisons and jails

The rights of victims are already protected, and the way they are enforced should not be added to the constitution

Prop 9 is unnecessary and would take money away from other government programs like education and healthcare

ALTERNATIVE FUEL VEHICLES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY. BONDS

• Provides $3.425 billion to help consumers and others purchase certain high fuel economy or alternative fuel vehicles, including natural gas vehicles, and to fund research into alternative fuel technology.

• Provides $1.25 billion for research, development and production of renewable energy technology, primarily solar energy with additional funding for other forms of renewable energy.

• Provides grants to cities for renewable energy projects and to colleges for training in renewable and energy efficiency technologies.

Prop 10 rebates will help more Californians afford cars and trucks that are better for the environment and cost less to run

This reduces California’s need for foreign oil and helps our state base more of its economy on clean power

Prop 10 takes taxpayer dollars from other budget priorities when we already have several programs in place to encourage clean power

Bonds should be saved for long-term investments like bridges and buildings, not short-term programs like car rebates

REDISTRICTING

• Changes authority for establishing Assembly, Senate, and Board of Equalization district boundaries from elected representatives to a 14-member commission.

• Requires government auditors to select 60 registered voters from applicant pool. Permits legislative leaders to reduce pool, then the auditors pick eight commission members by lottery, and those commissioners pick six additional members for 14 total.

• Requires commission of five Democrats, five Republicans and four of neither party.

Prop 11 ends the current system of politicians drawing district maps in ways that makes it very easy for them to get reelected

If we have more competitive elections, politicians will be more accountable to the voters

Instead of districts being drawn by legislators elected by the people, they will be drawn by commissioners picked by state administrators

Because it does not cover US Congress, Prop 11 sets up two different processes for drawing district maps

VETERANS’ BOND ACT OF 2008

• This act provides for a bond issue of nine hundred million dollars ($900,000,000) to provide loans to California veterans to purchase farms and homes

This gives veterans low-interest loans to buy homes, which is a way to show our appreciation for their service and sacrifice

Veterans who served in combat or in a combat zone should be given loads before other veterans since funds are limited

End the war in Iraq and refocus our efforts in Afghanistan

Sign universal health care legislation by the end of my first term

Put America on the path to a clean and secure energy future

Fighting the war against Islamic extremism

Restoring trust in government – I’ll start by ending wasteful government spending

Reforming our health care system and Social Security

• October 20th – Last Day To Register

• October 28th – Last Day To Cast Absentee Ballot

• November 4th – Election Day